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History Of The Innovation Of Damage Control For Management Of Trauma Patients: 1902-2016, Derek J. Roberts, Chad G. Ball, David V. Feliciano, Ernest E. Moore, Rao R. Ivatury, Charles E. Lucas, Timothy C. Fabian, David A. Zygun, Andrew W. Kirkpatrick, Henry T. Stelfox
History Of The Innovation Of Damage Control For Management Of Trauma Patients: 1902-2016, Derek J. Roberts, Chad G. Ball, David V. Feliciano, Ernest E. Moore, Rao R. Ivatury, Charles E. Lucas, Timothy C. Fabian, David A. Zygun, Andrew W. Kirkpatrick, Henry T. Stelfox
Surgery Publications
Objective: To review the history of the innovation of damage control (DC) for management of trauma patients.
Background: DC is an important development in trauma care that provides a valuable case study in surgical innovation.
Methods: We searched bibliographic databases (1950-2015), conference abstracts (2009-2013), Web sites, textbooks, and bibliographies for articles relating to trauma DC. The innovation of DC was then classified according to the Innovation, Development, Exploration, Assessment, and Long-term study model of surgical innovation.
Results: The "innovation'' of DC originated from the use of therapeutic liver packing, a practice that had previously been abandoned after World War II …